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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Time off for Passover, Easter
Capitol Chatter is taking a vacation, just like Minnesota legislators. The blog will return April 6....
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Candidates use forum to drill home specific points 
Farmers listening to the two major-party candidates for U.S. Senate may not have understood just where they stood on some issues after a Farmfest forum, but they could not have missed two points. Republican challenger Kurt Bills is a teacher. Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar works with Senate Republicans on a range of issues.
By Don Davis , August 11, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Are you ready for a recount?
Minnesota election officials say a recount is possible in Aug. 14 primary election state Supreme Court races. In 2008, incumbent Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea easily won the three-way primary race, but Jill Clark and Deborah Hedlund were so close that state law required a recount. This year, Clark again challenges now-Chief Justice Gildea. Dan Griffith also is on the ballot.
By Don Davis , August 04, 2012
CAPITOL CHATTER: As running mate, Pawlenty would face issues
Tim Pawlenty could get his wish to join a national ticket in the next few days. Although Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he has not decided on a running mate, outside speculation puts the former Minnesota governor at the top of the list.
By Don Davis , July 28, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Critics make Franson more determined
Death threats, demands to resign and other attacks to have only made state Rep. Mary Franson more determined to stay in office, she says. A Democratic-Farmer-Laborite campaign official sent Internet links to a video clip of a recent Franson speech in Browerville in which she discusses a joke she told in March that led to statewide reaction.
By Don Davis , July 21, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Marriage amendment backers count on DFL votes
Conventional political wisdom is that a gay-marriage prohibition on the Nov. 6 ballot would pit Democratic-Farmer-Laborites against Republicans. “It is not that cut and dried,” Chuck Darrell said.
By Don Davis , July 07, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Health care dispute keeps on giving
The Minnesota House minority leader declared that the U.S. Supreme Court settled “once and for all” the federal health-care law dispute. The state’s senior U.S. senator said the court put “the law above politics.” Yes and no. It is a complex issue, and one that is far from over, especially in the political arena.
By Don Davis , June 30, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Pawlenty near top of veep list
More and more discussion centers on Tim Pawlenty becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate, but at the same time, Ron Paul supporters are considering derailing traditional Republicans like the former Minnesota governor.
Pawlenty gradually has changed his tune about whether he is interested in running for vice president.
By Don Davis , June 23, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Rural-city divide shows up in pollution debate
A dispute about water pollution led to a city-rural rift as big as seen in some time. Minnesota city leaders and conservationists called a news conference to complain that farmers do too little to prevent water pollution and pay for cleaning the water
By Don Davis , June 02, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: DFL chairman seeks move toward political center
Political observers have watched for years as those who make decisions in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party move the political left and Republican decision makers head to the right.
By Don Davis , May 26, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Capitol quiet after stadium debate dominated
The Capitol is quiet after days of chants, cheers and songs like “Skol, Vikings.” The Vikings stadium issue that dominated the just-completed session climaxed with a love fest among state, Vikings and Minneapolis leaders after the House and Senate passed the plan to build a $975 million stadium.
By Don Davis , May 13, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Dean plan a diversion en route to stadium vote
The Dean plan will be an asterisk in the Great Stadium Debate of 2012, but it provided an interesting diversion while Minnesotans awaited a legislative vote about a new Vikings stadium. House Majority Leader Matt Dean, R-Dellwood, said he had worked a couple of weeks trying to find a solution to funding a stadium, but he was not ready for prime time when Gov. Mark Dayton caught wind of it.
By Don Davis , May 05, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Politicians wonder about sports bloggers, columnists
Don’t believe everything you read, especially in sports blogs and columns about government issues. That is what some Minnesota politicians say after dealing with Vikings stadium issues for months, or years.
By Don Davis , April 22, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: ‘Not exactly a pen pal letter’
The end of the 2012 Minnesota Legislature approaches amid strong partisan disagreements. House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, called a recent letter from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton “snarky.” Dayton’s letter to Zellers and Senate Majority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester, placed the blame squarely on them if a Vikings stadium, public works funding and Capitol building restoration fail this year.
By Don Davis , April 15, 2012
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CAPITOL CHATTER: Bud Grant scores touchdown with senators
The past week was full of big news under the Minnesota Capitol dome, everything from hundreds of workers protesting a proposal that would make joining unions optional to a sex scandal to the sudden stalling of a stadium construction bill. But the most entertaining episode probably was an unannounced appearance by a Minnesota football legend, former Vikings coach Bud Grant, urging lawmakers to raise hunting and fishing license fees to fund programs related to those activities.
By Don Davis , March 18, 2012
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Capitol Chatter: GOP says Dayton rejected appointees, too
Senate Republicans’ Monday firing of a Dayton appointee drew the governor’s sharp remarks. They said former Sen. Ellen Anderson is too strongly opposed to energy sources such as coal and nuclear to serve as an energy regulator in the Public Utilities Commission chairwoman’s job.
By Don Davis , February 04, 2012
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